First Great Awakening

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    The First Awakening began as an idea of evangelical minister Theodore Frelinghuysen, however, didn’t begin to impact society until many itinerant preachers such as Whitfield and Jonathan Edwards began traveling throughout New England preaching against church hierarchies telling people what to do and having their relationships with God. Both the First and Second Awakenings reflected changes in religious belief, and as ministers preached different theologies than those of the past significant social

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    mid 1700s, religious enthusiasm in the American settlements was biting the dust. Individuals were turning out to be increasingly common and simple. Keeping that religion once had a tremendous impact upon individuals, Jonathon Edwards began The Great Awakening. At that time period he would read these scary sermons trying to get people back into puritan beliefs. A similar author that can be compared with Jonathan Edward's is Washington Irving. The two stories they wrote that have similar beliefs is a

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    World War II ended, Branham held his first healing revival meeting in 1946. They were sensational and well documented. They initiated the modern healing revival. His meetings were conducted mostly in Oneness Pentecostal groups who did not believe in the Trinity. In 1947 he met Gordon Lindsay and Branham’s ministry became known among the Pentecostals. According to Gordon Lindsay, "Branham filled the largest stadiums and meeting halls in the world." Branham was the first of ten children and raised near

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    Patrick Henry’s “Speech to the Virginia Convention” was written the colonists wanted to gain independence from Great Britain. King George created unreasonable taxes, the colonists felt like they shouldn’t have to pay for it so they began to rebel. Jonathan Edwards’s gave his sermon “ Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” during the 1740’s, also this when the outbreak of the Great Awakening took place and a religious revival swept the colonies and sparked conversions. In Patrick Henry’s “Speech to

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    Though Whitefield often pushed the boundaries of grace when it came to his opponents, no one can deny that he was as bold as a lion when it came to preaching the truth. Regardless of the danger, he did not swerve from pronouncing the gospel of Christ to his hearers. On a number of occasions, Whitefield endured physical attacks after preaching a sermon and narrowly escaped with his life more than once. Most likely, though, the greater pain came from the relationships that were severed over the other

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    Answer choice A is incorrect for this question because the Great Awakening brought many evangelist preachers to the colonies to share their religious beliefs to crowds of colonies. These preachings took occurred in many areas of the thirteen colonies. Some of the notable preachers include Johnathan Edwards, George Whitefield, Francis Asbury, and Gilbert Tennent (Library of Congress: Religion and the Founding of the American Republic article). The teachings attracted thousands of colonists at a time-

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    Jonathan Edwards. His goal and purpose was to teach and warn people of the dangers of sins and the horrors of the afterlife. The speech was given at his own congregation in Northampton, Massachusetts to an unknown effect. Edwards had started The Great Awakening from his preaching. He was also a descendant of four generations of Puritan ministers and the most renowned and influential of Puritan Leaders. Edward began his sermon by saying "In this verse is threatened the Vengeance of God on the wicked unbelieving

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    The next piece of Hawthorne’s works that is important to analyze to understand his feelings toward Christianity in America is the story called The Minister’s Black Veil. This work is interesting to study Hawthorne’s thoughts on Christianity because it focuses on both negative and positive aspects of Christianity in America. In this piece a parson in a Puritan community suspiciously emerges from his home one morning adorning a black veil. The community is both curious and frightened by the dark piece

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    The Great Awakening was a series of religious revivals that greatly contributed to the separation of church and state, it did this because it played a part in the growth of different types of Protestantism. In addition, the Great Awakening embraced evangelical style teachings and focused on church congregations. Furthermore, the Great Awakening formed new boundaries between the church and state that before were nonexistent by changing church membership requirements, growth in the variety of religion

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    The Great Awakening was a movement that impacted the religious community forever. I would like to argue that people really did not change much after the Awakening, and they slipped back into their old habits after the entertaining revivals. I will be discussing what happened during the Great Awakening, and why it happened. Also, the impacts it had, and the influential people like George Whitefield, and Jonathan Edwards who encouraged this movement and helped it flourish. The Great Awakening was

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